Node Cookbook - Third Edition

Session authentication in Koa

Let's implement the same authentication as our main recipe, but this time using Koa!

Let's copy the koa-logging folder, which we created in the There's more... section of the previous recipe name it koa-authentication, copy the views folder from the main recipe, install the koa-bodyparser and koa-generic-session modules, and create a routes/auth.js file:

$ cp -fr ../adding-logging/koa-logging koa-authentication
$ cd koa-authentication
$ cp -fr ../express-authentication/views views
$ npm install --save koa-bodyparser koa-generic-session
$ touch routes/auth.js 

Let's require the two additional modules we installed near the top of the index.js as well as loading our new routes/auth.js file:

const bodyParser = require('koa-bodyparser') ...